A/UK speaking on Utopia Dispatch - a podcast to reimagine the future and reshape the world
Alternative Editorial: Don't Look For Hope, Look For Action
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, LOCALISM, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, POLITICAL CULTURE, A/UK EDITORIAL, A BETTER MEDIA, FUTURESpat kanesocial media, action, hope, ReGen A, attention economy, soft power, greta thunberg, human givens
Drummer Queens, voice boxes for the mute, 21stC unions, AI that customises drugs for you: TED's 20 New Fellows
“A system that privileges rationality over emotion is a system that protects the status quo”. How stories can help break through
Immersive theatre can put you at the heart of a revolution. But does it make you revolutionary?
Here's Participedia. That's right: an encyclopedia of participatory and deliberative practice
Now free to watch: The People's Spring -how civic tech movements affect modern politics
New narratives from Africa - shaped by news and investigative reporting, and contemporary art-film
Some highlights from the latest manifesto of The Movement for Cultural Democracy
Robo-laywers, "deepfake" incidents, superbugs & city brains. Some predictions for 2019, from Nesta & others
Do you know your "commons-based peer production" from your "cosmo-localism"? A jargon test on our discourse here
Civic Meme Miscellany: Grieving dads play footy, recycling or re-using?, & not your average train ride
Alternative Editorial: Can We Change Channel Please?
To get behind a news story, add to it, dance to it, put it in history or out of context. This is Newspaper Theatre
"Deep reading" is good for citizenship - but we need "deep screening" too. Time to cultivate a "bi-literate brain"
Lesley Riddoch on the "power of local" - communities taking control in their own way
We don’t know what we don’t know…and somebody is constructing our ignorance. Welcome to agnotology
Vermont's Front Porch Forum is brilliantly successful at putting the Net at the service of communities
We are in an addictive relationship with our social media tech. Design ethics can break that
Woke Space Opera, Kitchen Sink Utopia, the New Weird, The Ultra-Unreal, Gulf Futurism... some useful new Sci-Fi genres